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Despite being blind in one eye and deaf, gymnast Aimee Walker-Pond defeated all odds to fulfill her dreams

"No Excuses" tells the story of Aimee Walker-Pond, an elite gymnast who defeated all odds to fulfill her dreams of becoming an elite gymnast despite the fact she is deaf and blind in one eye.

When Aimee Walker-Pond was 7, her cousins were in gymnastics classes, and she wanted to do gymnastics too. But there is two vital differences between Walker-Pond and her cousins: she is deaf and blind in one eye.

Walker-Pond didn’t let that stop her, and she excelled from the beginning, training with world-renowned coaches and competing with acclaimed teams, including UCLA and Brigham Young University.